PHP Fullstack Developer

Unitforce Technology LLC; Athens (GA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Unitforce Technology LLC in Athens, Georgia, is seeking a skilled professional to manage and support a high-traffic marketing website on Wordpress. The role involves cloud database administration, DevOps practices, and SEO enhancements, ensuring seamless integration and automation within the infrastructure.

Key responsibilities include managing Google Cloud Platform resources, enhancing security, and automating deployment processes. The ideal candidate should possess extensive experience in PHP, MySQL, Wordpress, and related technologies.

Qualifications

• Experience with PHP and MySQL development.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, specifically Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with DevOps processes including CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Execute Development and Support of a high-traffic Marketing website.
• Manage Cloud SQL database and infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.
• Set up automated Continuous Integration and Deployment process.

Skills

PHP

MySQL

Apache Web Server

Linux

Wordpress

WP-CLI

JQuery

gulp

Google Cloud Platform

Github

Jenkins

Job description

Responsibilities

• Single handedly executing the Development and Support of a high traffic Marketing website, created on Wordpress CMS.
• Follow DevOps model – responsible for Development, Testing (automated) and Deployment (automated)
• Database administration of Cloud SQL (MySQL)
• Site Administration, including managing the infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – HTTP Loadbalancer, Multiple Compute Engine VMs, Auto scaling Managed Instance Groups, Cloud SQL DB, Cloud CDN, Stackdriver monitoring, Cloud Storage.
• The Site has just been migrated from AWS to GCP as lift and shift, and taken over from a different vendor, and the following DevOps setup tasks are pending:
• Create automated Build process utilizing gulp.js
• Create automated Deployment scripts.
• Create Development (local) and Staging environments and process to promote Code and data across these.
• Set up automated Continuous Integration and Deployment process (CI/CD) using Jenkins.
• Due to the load balanced setup, all wordpress and related plugin updates and setting changes needs to be promoted as code deployments using WP-CLI.
• Performance enhancement of the Site – Caching server, CDN, reduce page size.
• Enhance security of the site to prevent brute force attacks, configure custom Admin page, define criteria to blacklist IPs, enforce Password strength, prevent unauthorized access to DB and files.
• Enhance existing Custom Themes and Plugins and develop new ones
• Configuration of various Wordpress Plugins Manage Integration with other systems through APIs.
• Improve SEO. Integrate Google Analytics. No Creative work involved. Visual design will be provided by another Vendor.

Skills Required

• PHP, MySQL, Apache Web Server, Linux, Wordpress, WP-CLI, JQuery, gulp, Google Cloud Platform, Github, Jenkins

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